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CD Burners with Built in Compression

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 6, 2003 @05:03AM from the now-isn't-that-fancy dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Bored of new CD-R/RW drives that only seem to decrease burn times by a few seconds over their predecessors? Check out this review of Plextor's PlexWriter Premium over at The Tech Report. With an advertised CD-R burn speed of 52X, the PlexWriter is certainly fast, but its ability to encrypt the contents of burned data CDs and squeeze nearly a Gigabyte of data onto a 700MB disc is what sets it apart from other high-speed burners."

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Re:dear submitter... by MikeXpop · 2003-07-06 05:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe instead of first posting, you could have RTFA to find out.

Sheesh. Who modded this one up?

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Oh boy, I can't wait by realdpk · 2003-07-06 05:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Now the CD world will get to enjoy what the Tape backup world (that is, the classic 2:1 compression scam - woo hoo, a 200GB tape that can only hold 100GB of data) has enjoyed forever - claims of 1GB CDROMs with little asterisks suggesting that's only for highly compressable data or somesuch nonsense.